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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does E.D. try to convince Lomax?
(a) That the replicator plan is not feasible.
(b) That the replicator plan is brilliant.
(c) That Jason is incompetent to handle the replicator plan.
(d) That the replicator plan could backfire.

2. What does the Spin membrane start doing?
(a) Vibrating.
(b) Showing sporadic signs of disturbance by flickering for a few hours at a time.
(c) Loosening.
(d) Tightening.

3. Who tips off E.D. on the state of Jason's health?
(a) Tyler.
(b) Simon.
(c) Molly.
(d) Diane.

4. Why does Tyler give Jason a heavier dose of medicine?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) His illness is getting worse.
(c) He is experimenting with a new regime.
(d) He is trying to slowly kill Jason.

5. Who does Simon finally talk to on the phone?
(a) E.D.
(b) Simon.
(c) Diane.
(d) Jason.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who greets Diane and Tyler at the door to the Lawton's house?

2. For what does Simon blame himself?

3. What do they hope the replicators will eventually do?

4. Why does Jason want Tyler to inject him with the Martian drug?

5. With whom was Carol in love for most of her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tyler and Diane escape from Condon's ranch?

2. Why is Jason dying?

3. What does Tyler wonder about Diane and how does she respond?

4. How is Jason's health, what does he ask Tyler to do and how does Tyler respond?

5. What does Jason tell Tyler about the Martian ambassador, conditions on Mars and why he was sent?

6. What happens shortly after the Spin membrane is gone?

7. What does Simon tell Tyler about Diane when Tyler arrives at Condon's ranch?

8. Where do Diane and Tyler go at the end of the book? What was the ultimate purpose of the Spin membrane?

9. What does Simon say about his conflict between Diane and his beliefs?

10. What does Molly say when Tyler confronts her?

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